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Forgotten True Crime
by Trevor Shelby
Join proud Host, Trevor Shelby, as he digs into the most interesting stories that show the darker side of True Crime. Every episode we will feature a true crime story that has been forgotten through time. We will cover Cold Cases, Missing Persons, Serial Killers, and Horrible Crimes that happened in the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries.
Episodes
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The Murder at the Marguery: The Albert E. Langford Murder
Monday night, the fourth of June, 1945. Park Avenue at Forty-Seventh Street, the Hotel Marguery, where the people who live there don't visit; they live there, in suites, with maids. Two men in soft dark hats step into an elevator, and one of them says one word: "Seven." Up on the seventh floor…
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The Lipstick Killer - Episode 3 - The Murder of Suzanne Degnan
Two women and a girl, killed in one Chicago neighborhood in the space of seven months. On June 5, 1945, Josephine Ross was murdered in her flat at 4108 North Kenmore Avenue. Within a week, everyone held for questioning had been let go. Six months later, on December 10, Frances Brown, a former…
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The Lipstick Killer - Episode 2 - The Murder of Frances Brown
On the morning of December 10, 1945, a maid at the Pine Crest hotel on Chicago's North Side saw a door standing open and heard a radio playing. Inside, someone had written a message in lipstick on the wall, begging the police to catch him before he killed again. The woman in that apartment was...
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The Lipstick Killer - Episode 1 - The Murder of Josephine Ross
Chicago, June 1945. A woman is murdered in her apartment on the North Side of the city — and when they find her, one of her hands is closed around several short black hairs. She fought him. Somebody taped the wounds on her throat closed afterwards and left the tape to dry, rinsed her clothes in…
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The Job Corps Killing — Colleen Slemmer and Christa Pike (Updated Oct 1st 2026)
Updated October 1st 2026. On Wednesday morning, about an hour before the State of Tennessee was set to execute Christa Pike, a federal appeals court stopped it. This is the story of how she got there, and of the nineteen-year-old girl thirty years of headlines mostly forgot. It's a Thursday night...
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Because He Cursed Me — Two Cousins, One Wall, Muskogee 1952
Half past two on a Monday afternoon, the third of March, 1952, in Muskogee, Oklahoma. Augustus Shoals comes home and finds his wife sitting on the side of the bed with her head down. She tells him what his cousin did that morning — and the cousin, on the other side of the wall, hears every word…
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The Murder of George Washington Wiant: Killed for Money He Didn't Have
On a Monday evening in November 1936, a young woman carried a basket of clean laundry up the steps of a little clapboard house on South Waco Avenue in Wichita, Kansas, and knocked on her grandfather's door. Nobody answered. She knocked again on Tuesday, and again on Wednesday, and by then she had...
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The South Braintree Payroll Murders
On the afternoon of April 15, 1920, two men walked a shoe company's payroll down a street in South Braintree, Massachusetts, the way they had done it a hundred paydays before. They never reached the other end of the street. Thirty-three years later, a New York newspaper gave that afternoon a full...
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Frieda Weltz's Revenge - The murder of Francis Grace Sr.
Santa Cruz, California. The ninth of September, 1933 — Admission Day, the state's own holiday — and up on Beach Hill, above the bay, the afternoon is coming down soft and warm. In the garden of a big house called "The Cabins," Francis J. M. Grace sits in his chair: fifty-nine years old, a...
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Dead in the Pecan Grove - The Curious Case of William Childers
At about seven o'clock on a Sunday morning in November of 1921, two men walked out of a farmhouse on Hickory Creek, south of the little town of Woodford, Oklahoma, to gather pecans. One of them was about sixty years old. The whole county called him Uncle Bill. The other had been living in his…
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The Maniac Sniper: The Week Omaha Went Dark
Omaha, Nebraska, the winter of 1926. On a Sunday night in February, a dairyman named W. L. McDevitt steps out of his house — "We're waiting supper for him now" — and is shot dead on the sidewalk in front of the First Methodist church. Four days later, a wealthy physician named Dr. Austin Searles…
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The Murder of Frances Nesbitt
Six-thirty on a Friday morning, February 19, 1926, in Troy, Ohio. Jacob Nesbitt gets up, fixes the furnace, sweeps the snow off the front walk, and drives to Dayton to sell kitchen machines at a food show — the machines at which his own wife had just been handed the better territory. His wife is…
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The Pepper on the Trail: The Murder of Arley Keck
Five past eight on a Saturday morning, the eighteenth of March, 1944, in Weleetka, Oklahoma. The man delivering the milk sets his bottles down inside a corner grocery and looks over at the chair by the front door — the chair where the owner sits every morning of his life, with the radio going.…
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Who Killed Bugsy Siegel — The Case Beverly Hills Never Closed
This August I asked the Beverly Hills Police Department for the file on crime case number 46176. It is a homicide from 1947. They wrote back twenty-four days later. The records exist. They are in the department's possession. And they are exempt from disclosure, and will not be released. Then they...
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The Twelve Days — Three Bodies to a Guilty Plea in Oklahoma, 1944
On the night of Friday, the seventh of April, 1944, a posse of farmers and twenty-five sailors from the naval firing station at Shawnee, Oklahoma, put about a hundred and fifty shots into a patch of brush. Twelve days after they pulled a man out of it, he had pleaded guilty to three murders and...
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Foul Play Is Not Suspected — Daniel Robinson, Missing Since 2021
On June 23, 2021, a 24-year-old field geologist named Daniel Robinson drove away from a water well site outside Buckeye, Arizona, in the rain. Twenty-six days later a rancher found his Jeep in a ravine three and a half miles out — rolled, every airbag fired, still in drive, his phone and keys and...
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The Sirloin Stockade Murders: Roger Dale Stafford and Verna Stafford (Updated)
Oklahoma, the summer of 1978. A family pulls over on Interstate 35 to help a woman with a broken-down car. Twenty-four days later, six people are shot to death in a walk-in freezer at a steakhouse in south Oklahoma City. For eight months, nobody knew the two crimes were connected — until a...
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Like Father, Like Son: The Murder of Ethel Story
On a hundred-degree night in August of 1938, in Durant, Oklahoma, a fifty-year-old woman named Ethel Story burned to death in a storeroom behind her own house. The building was eight feet by five. It had no windows. And the latch was on the outside. Her fourteen-year-old son heard her screaming...
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The Rattlesnake Murder — The Last Man California Ever Hanged
La Crescenta, California — August 1935. A barber comes home after dark with two friends invited for a barbecue supper, and finds his wife face down in the backyard fish pond. There's a snakebite on her foot, a note pinned to the door that's been hanging there a day too long — and for a long time,...
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Murder or Nothing (Part 2): Three Days in January — Oklahoma City, 1953
A justice of the peace comes half out of his chair and threatens to throw a defense attorney in jail — in open court, in a case where a police officer is dead. Five weeks later, the prosecution decides the lawyer was right, and asks to throw out its own hearing and start the whole thing over....
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Murder or Nothing (Part 1): Five Dollars — The Death of Officer Delbert Beaman, Oklahoma City, 1952
On a Sunday night in July of 1952, an Oklahoma City police officer was shot once in the stomach with his own .38 service revolver, in a garage apartment on Northwest Eleventh Street, during an argument with his wife about a five-dollar bill.He got himself down the stairs to a neighbor's door. He...
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The Trunk Murders – Part 3 – An Idle Gesture
Phoenix, January 1932. Winnie Ruth Judd goes on trial for her life — and on the first morning, before a single juror is seated, her lawyers tell the room she will not be taking the stand. She never does. Twelve men sentence her to death without once hearing her voice. Part Three is the trial, the...
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The Trunk Murders – Part 2 – Who Is Winnie Ruth Judd
Phoenix, Arizona. October, 1931. Saturday night, half past ten. A truckman named Richard Swartz pulls up to a little white stucco duplex on an unpaved street and finds the house completely dark. He rings the bell. Keeps ringing it. Finally a young woman opens the door with every light in the…
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The Trunk Murders – Part 1 – Two Trunks from Phoenix
Los Angeles. October, 1931. Somewhere in the desert night, on the overnight train from Phoenix, a sleepy baggageman notices something seeping from the corner of a trunk. He's seen this before — hunters are always trying to sneak deer meat past the railroad. So he writes out two red warning cards,...
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Two Shots Near Adams — The Death of Chief Roland "Tod" Payne
On a dark Wisconsin highway in November of 1939, two lawmen were driving two teenage boys home to answer for a stolen car. It should have been the most routine night of the week. And then a gun went off inside the car. Minutes later, the two officers were lying handcuffed together in a roadside...
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The Confession — The Murder of Vernard Fearn, Canton, Ohio, 1928
On a December evening in 1928, a woman walked up to the door of a coal dealer's home outside Canton, Ohio, called him out onto the porch, and emptied a pistol into him. Then she turned and walked, not ran, to the bus stop, and vanished into the night. For eight days, the papers had a name for…
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Down in the Cellar: The Murder of Novella Winkle
On a Sunday night in August of 1926, four men stood inside an old log house in the hills of Greene County, Tennessee, holding a search warrant and a lantern. They were looking for a missing girl — a twelve-year-old named Novella Winkle, who had been staying with the couple who lived there, and…
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The Honor Slaying
Forgotten True Crime is officially back — and we're relaunching with a story that has everything. Oklahoma City, 1933. A highway officer keeps a .45 in his bureau drawer. A basketball star from Denver is sleeping in his guest room. And at 4:30 in the morning, his wife wakes up screaming that...
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The Vanishing of Joan Croft
In this bonus episode of Forgotten True Crime, we explore the mysterious disappearance of 4-year-old Joan Gray Croft during the devastating 1947 Woodward tornado. As the town lay in ruins, Joan was last seen in a chaotic hospital basement, only to vanish without a trace. Was she taken by two men...
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The Cheyenne Mystery: The Muder of Jack Leary
When Jack Leary is found brutally murdered in Cheyenne, Oklahoma, in 1933, the community is left reeling. The investigation that follows spans nearly a decade, punctuated by false confessions, dismissed charges, and a trial that raises more questions than answers. Join Trevor Shelby as he…
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A Mother's Nightmare: The Disappearance and Murder of 7-Year-Old Lonnie Fellick
In today's episode of Forgotten True Crime, we delve into the heartbreaking case of Lonnie Fellick, a 7-year-old boy from Chicago who disappeared in October 1947. Lonnie, who was facing the possibility of being sent to an institutional home due to his family's eviction, made a fateful promise to...
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The Last Walk Home: The Murder of Ben Coleman
Join us on Forgotten True Crime as we uncover the shocking murder of 14-year-old Ben Coleman in 1921. This case shook the small town of Duncan, Oklahoma and left the community searching for answers. We delve into the events of that fateful night and the investigation that followed. From the gun...
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The Ghosts Revenge - Murder in San Quentin
Hello, and welcome everyone to Forgotten True Crime. My name is Trevor Shelby. The Spooky times are almost here, meaning we are telling Haunted stories once again. Today we are telling the story of James Bailey, who was murdered by Henry "Dutchy" Baker in San Quentin Prison in California. Dutchy...
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Bonus - The Murder of Mildred Mowry - Torch Slayer 3 & 4
February 23rd, 1929, in Cranford, New Jersey. A man making a delivery sees a fire in the distance on the road. What he comes upon would stick with him for the rest of his life. Another woman had been murdered and set on fire. Who was this woman? Did she have any connection with Margaret Brown who...
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Bonus - The Murder of Margaret Brown - Torch Slayer 1 & 2
I have spent quite a bit of time on this case because I wanted to answer this one simple question, was the torch slayer a serial killer? The basic definition of a Serial Killer is someone who commits a series of murders, often with no apparent motive and typically following a characteristic,...
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The Murder of little Robert Franks
Robert Franks had gone missing, and his Father, Joseph Franks, went out looking for him. At home, his mother receives a phone call from someone claiming to have her son... and he wanted money or his life. Make sure you join us on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_oBtAL_OqUsh3ZSiR-ttMw...
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The Torch Slayer - Part Four
February 23rd, 1929, in Cranford, New Jersey. A man making a delivery sees a fire in the distance on the road. What he comes upon would stick with him for the rest of his life. Another woman had been murdered and set on fire. Who was this woman? Did she have any connection with Margaret Brown who...
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The Torch Slayer - Part Three
February 23rd, 1929, in Cranford, New Jersey. A man making a delivery sees a fire in the distance on the road. What he comes upon would stick with him for the rest of his life. Another woman had been murdered and set on fire. Who was this woman? Did she have any connection with Margaret Brown who...
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The Torch Slayer - Part Two
Today we continue this new series. Margaret Brown was murdered in 1928, the killer was known as the Torch Slayer due to the harsh nature of her murder. There was little for police to go on except for a name. Dr. Louis Clement. As they track down the Doctor they find out many things about him that...
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(Bonus) Seven Feet Deep - Parts One and Two
In April of 1922, in a small corner of the Bronx in New York. There were curious questions about what might have happened to Mrs. Jennie Becker. A hardworking stay-at-home mother of four who fiercely loved her children. On April 6th, she and her husband, Abraham Becker, had attended a party...
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The Torch Slayer - Part One
Today we are starting a new series, I have spent quite a bit of time on this case because I wanted to answer this one simple question, was the torch slayer a serial killer? The basic definition of a Serial Killer is someone who commits a series of murders, often with no apparent motive and...
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Seven Feet Deep - Part Two
In April of 1922, in a small corner of the Bronx in New York. There were curious questions about what might have happened to Mrs. Jennie Becker. A hardworking stay-at-home mother of four who fiercely loved her children. On April 6th, she and her husband, Abraham Becker, had attended a party...
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Seven Feet Deep - Part One
In April of 1922, in a small corner of the Bronx in New York. There were curious questions about what might have happened to Mrs. Jennie Becker. A hardworking stay-at-home mother of four who fiercely loved her children. On April 6th, she and her husband, Abraham Becker, had attended a party...
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The Unsolved Murder of Kate Teal
This Forgotten True Crime is truly sad. A Woman by the name of Kate Teal was attacked in her home. The Murder weapon was a 12-inch bladed knife used to kill animals. Now police are struggling to solve what seems to be the perfect crime. This Episode is the first of our YouTube Series. Make sure…
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The Intruder - The Murder of Albert Snyder
In 1927, Lorraine Snyder fled from her home and ran to a neighbors house. Her family had been attacked. Her Mother Ruth Snyder was tied up and on the floor. Lorraine's Father was murdered in his bedroom while he slept. Who attacked this family and killed Albert? The truth may surprise you...…
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(Bonus) Forbidden Love - Parts One and Two
College is supposed to be a safe place for students. This was no different in 1929 at the Ohio State University Campus. Theora K Hix, a 25-year-old student at the University was found dead at a local Rifle Range. The Main Suspects were faculty at the University, Professor James H Snook, and...
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Forbidden Love - Part Two
College is supposed to be a safe place for students. This was no different in 1929 at the Ohio State University Campus. Theora K Hix, a 25-year-old student at the University was found dead at a local Rifle Range. The Main Suspects were faculty at the University, Professor James H Snook, and...
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Forbidden Love - Part 1
College is supposed to be a safe place for students. This was no different in 1929 at the Ohio State University Campus. Theora K Hix, a 25-year-old student at the University was found dead at a local Rifle Range. The Main Suspects were faculty at the University, Professor James H Snook, and...
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Bonus: Silent Night Deadly Night Series
This bonus episode includes all of the Silent Night Deadly Night Episodes together for anyone who wants to listen to that series in one sitting. This multi-part episode is about the mysterious death of Elizabeth Ford Griffith. A 17-year-old girl caught up in a love triangle with her boss Dr....
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The Visitor
December 24th, 1930. Rassa Jett was returning home from a Christmas Church program in Kingston, Tennessee. When he arrived home, he found his wife Kathy, dead on the floor. The killer had struck her on the head several times. This sad story is a unique case that had an ending that will surprise you.
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Join proud Host, Trevor Shelby, as he digs into the most interesting stories that show the darker side of True Crime. Every episode we will feature a true crime story that has been forgotten through time. We will cover Cold Cases, Missing Persons, Serial Killers, and Horrible Crimes that happened in the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries.
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